Why are so many things broken

Sir Ken Robinson with his speech, Bring on the learning revolution.  I thought it was great how he stated that communities survive on diversity.  Not everyone has to follow the same path of going to college and working as a professional.   We don’t need to be so obsessed with everyone following this linearity narrative.  Every individual has a diverse way of learning.  Sometimes it can be conformed such as the fast food enology but the best way is organically.   Finding your passion and what dives you to want to become better, builds for better communities.  Americans are more obsessed with what will get them ahead in life then what will make them happy.

Why are so many things broken?   I liked how individuals see these signs or problems everyday but never think twice about it.  As he said it is not my job.  The garbage can in the restroom was a great example of something you see everywhere but no one wants to take the insinuative of getting a larger can as it’s not their job.  The signs are great as they should be understandable to everyone not just to the individual that made the sign.  Our communication is broken and we just look past it. 

As Thomas Goetz said fear doesn’t work but understanding the future and making it personal is the way to go.  The feedback loop gives individuals relevance, choices, and action.  Making it personal with that individual can show them what is happening now and what their future can be, making it a reality.

Font, what you want the font to do, and what it does.  I found this very interesting as each one had a different effect on what I thought the purpose was going to be.  Many of them are dead on such as the tattoo. 

I like the idea that Seeing the Text brought up of viewing the rhetoric of visual design as an evolving art.  I think it would be great if teachers would recognize what was happening outside their classrooms.  Allowing the students to explore and build a descriptive base for visual design (77).

Critical Photo Essay

Sorry, I’m turning this in late but I’ve been driving for the last two days, I became an aunt last night!

Now to my Critical Photo-Essay, I’m still questioning exactly how I’m going to do this but my topic is going to be on how words and images interact to make meaning.  As we see it everywhere, I’m going to take a deeper look into advertisement.  I might go with how it has changed over the years and has been able to have such a profound effect on different individuals.  Images and words make such a strong statement that the meaning wouldn’t be the same without one.    

I’m not sure if I should just stick with advertisement or do more everyday situations?  I think if I just stick with one topic it would make for a stronger point.  Any input would help me out.

"getting by"

Michael Wesch’s video: Vision of Students and Britannica Blog…..I have no idea how I feel about these videos.  As technology is not the problem at all in this situation of students getting on face book or listing to their music, if they are not doing that they are looking out the window.  Or this “getting by” assumption of what students want to do.  I feel that one of the writings on the wall in the video “it separates us from the outside world” is so true.  Many college students come right to college and are supposed to know what they want to do for rest of their lives.  So, they enter these courses that go over the same material year after year and the information does not pertain to anything in the outside world.  Ending up spending thousands of dollars and coming out with a piece of paper.  I know that some individuals are going say that college students just aren’t trying but they haven’t even had the opportunity in life to find out who they are and what they want.  Until “students” understand who they are it’s going to be as the video said “experts to students”, with nothing in between.    

Knowledge is not obtained in Wikis but designed in the tacklement with the positions of others participants during an interactive and collaborative writing process (Kohl, p.177).  As “wiki” has grown so much since 2003 and the words of other individuals has spread all over the world, enlightening different thoughts and feelings have been shared.   It’s allowing everyone to interact and providing their knowledge on whatever is being discussed.  “The experiences of the participants as well as the writing processes form the basis of knowledge” (Kohl, p.177).  Having the opportunity to learn from others experience or knowledge over something and being able to get all different kinds of perspective, gives individual’s knowledge. 

In the article on Pencils and Pixels I found it very intriguing that Plato one of the world’s greatest thinkers spoke strongly against writing, Plato thought it would weaken our memories (p. 18).  As pencils were being developed in the 1560’s changing the way the world communicates was the same reaction that individuals have with computers.  As I thought about it over hundreds of year’s human nature still hasn’t changed.   As Plato was against individuals writing, many elderly individual s are against computers because the sense of personal communication is not found and they just do not trust them. 

Intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKl6jsdQeo&feature=youtubegdataplayer

Digital Rhetorics 1

I have never taken a course or studied in depth anything about rhetoricial discourse so I’m learning something new every page I read.  I found it very interesting how rhetorics was being defined a as “a way to argue” and  I might be completely wrong but after reading the articles I did not find this true at all. Finding it evident in what Vatz states, that the art of rhetoric should involve “integrity” with every situation the rhetor may face (Grant-Davie).  This and many other scenarios that had been described in the reading brought a discussion and a sense of reasoning between individuals or a group to a common place. 

I found this statement to be very true, as everything we interact with usually has at least one variability.  Every situation arises within a context-a background of time, place, people, or conditions within the context they are relevant and should be considered part of the situation because they have the potential to act as positive or negative constraints on the discourse (273, Grant-Davie).  Every individual reaches differently to a situation because of their background or something that they have experienced leading to the possibility for every situation to have a different outcome.

In the Covino and Joliffe article I appreciate the quote “rhetoric is the art of knowledge-making” (8).  As the article indicates some scholars study the changes through time and others through text, providing students like me with the chance to enjoy past history and culture. 

Eric Whitacre

I have never heard of Eric Whitarce before and I’m so grateful today I have the opportunity to listen to this amazing piece he conducted ‘Lux Aurumque’.  It is the most beautiful piece, with an amazing concept behind it.  Bringing everyone in the world together through music!

Inro to WRIT 371

Hi Class,

My name is Kendra, I'm from Bloomington, Il.  I will be finished with school this coming fall and can't wait for school to be over!  I love the outdoors and this will be my first summer in Bozeman! I can't wait for all the hiking that I will be able to do. I'm looking forward to Rhetorics and Multimodal Writing course.